Every symbolic system presupposes an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system can fully account for the existence of experience itself.
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consciousness and the human world
Political science inherits the person from philosophy without explaining it.
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on Aristotelian identity
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
When everyone uses the same intelligence to compete for the same opportunities, intelligence ceases to be the advantage. Competition becomes the system’s principal output.
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cockroach party
Social media did not create the grievance. It synchronised millions of separate frustrations into a single political force.
Parent-adolescent conflict is not failed communication. It is a regulatory differential through which identity emerges, is negotiated, and persists.
The apparent speed of generation can obscure how much judgement, rejection and restructuring the process still requires. The labour has not disappeared; it has shifted.
A movement founded on representing those with the least power increasingly depends upon support from those with the most.
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our collective future
The objective function of civilisation is not wealth, growth or power. It is the continual reproduction of the conditions that make civilisation itself possible.
The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.
AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.
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the strange ontology of power
Extreme wealth is not independence. It is an unusually successful dependence upon everyone else.
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